CEO Ex-Husband, Don't Bother Me

Chapter 208 - 167: Torment

Naomi Shaw pulled Dylan and Joy into her arms, kissing them one after the other, again and again. "No matter what happens, you just have to remember that Mommy will always love you!"

After saying this, she stood up, took her two children by the hand, and handed them over to Willow Summers. "Willow, please take the children to Julian Donovan. I won’t see them again."

’If I go back to Sean Donovan’s side, there’s no telling what dangers I’ll face. The children will be safest with Julian Donovan. I don’t have the ability to protect them at all.’

’Never see the children again?’ Willow Summers was stunned by her resolve. "Naomi..."

Naomi Shaw just urged her to leave quickly. "Please, just take them and go now!"

She was afraid that if Sean Donovan discovered she’d spent too much time with the children, her act wouldn’t be convincing. So, she pushed Willow Summers, who was holding the two children’s hands, out the door.

Joy, still too young to understand why her mother would abandon her and her brother, cried ceaselessly on Willow Summers’s shoulder. She desperately wanted to go back to her mommy, but remembering her brother’s words about cooperating with their mother, she could only shed sad tears.

Dylan kept looking back at the door of his mother’s small apartment with every few steps. He desperately hoped his mom would suddenly rush out, grab them, and tell them not to go. But he also knew that since his gentle mother had made such a decision, she certainly wouldn’t change it easily.

The moment Willow Summers stepped out of the building with Dylan and Joy, Walter Jennings, who had been waiting for her in the car, strode over and whispered, "I think someone’s watching us nearby!"

Walter Jennings used to be a soldier, so he had a keen sense for this sort of thing.

"Huh?"

Willow Summers was completely stunned. ’Who are they watching?’

Hearing Walter Jennings’s words, Dylan immediately started wiping his tears and crying his heart out. "My mommy doesn’t want me anymore! My mommy doesn’t want me anymore! WAHHH..."

His intuition told him that his mother wanted to act cold toward him and Joy in front of outsiders, so he was crying like this to play along.

Joy, however, didn’t understand her brother’s intentions. She was already sad about being separated from her mother, and seeing her brother like this, she also burst into loud sobs. The two children’s sudden wailing left Willow Summers completely frazzled. "What’s wrong? What’s wrong?"

The two children didn’t answer her, just kept crying and wiping away their tears.

Walter Jennings scooped Dylan into his arms, glanced around warily, and said to Willow Summers, "Let’s just get them out of here first!"

Willow Summers, holding Joy, returned to the car with Walter Jennings and drove away.

The moment their car drove off, a picture of the scene where Dylan and Joy were crying their eyes out was sent to Sean Donovan’s phone. Sean Donovan’s perpetually gloomy face finally broke into its first smile in days. But of course, his test of her wasn’t over yet.

He had thought that after suffering repeated defeats in his rivalry with Julian Donovan, he would never have another chance to get her. But then, this incident between her and Julian Donovan had suddenly occurred. The scene at the ceremony had made him ecstatic, but it had also put him on guard. The reason she gave for dumping Julian Donovan left him half-convinced, half-skeptical.

Making Julian Donovan fall in love with her only to cruelly retaliate against him—the reason she gave was understandable. But he doubted that someone with her gentle nature could do something so ruthless, which was why he had sent people to watch her apartment.

Julian Donovan’s furious departure and Dylan’s tearful outburst had made him lower his guard slightly. In his eyes, the two children were her life. When she had just reunited with Julian Donovan, Julian had constantly used the children to control her. Now that she had been ruthless enough to abandon even her children, did it mean she truly intended to break up with Julian Donovan for good?

But regardless of her motives, he wasn’t going to pass up this opportunity created by her falling out with Julian Donovan. He had tried every trick in the book to get her back by his side. How could he possibly miss a chance like this?

He knew she didn’t love him, and he didn’t ask her to. All he wanted was for her to be by his side quietly, just like during those three years. Only when she was with him did he feel at ease, did he feel like he was truly alive. Without her, he felt like a walking corpse.

With this in mind, he picked up his phone, dialed another number, and ordered coolly, "A week from now, book me a table at the most famous hotel in Wincastle!"

He would wait and watch for another week to see what she and Julian Donovan would do.